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Ty's Take Most of us in small towns know the math: you can't heal if you're worried sick about who's feeding the dog back home. Sierra County Hospital and the animal care folks working together on this one aren't just
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Ty's Take October lands here every year with the same proclamation, the same ribbons and awareness weeks, and then November comes and the problem doesn't disappear with the calendar. County fairs keep running because volunteers show up year after year, same as the people who answer
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Ty's Take There's a lot of moving in Chaffee County right now, which is either encouraging or concerning depending on where you sit. The hospital's breaking ground on a new east wing, City Market's building out in Buena Vista, and down here
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Ty's Take The Celebration of Nations parade is still months off, but that's how it works in a town built on tradition. Missouri S&T's St. Pat's has been the heartbeat of this place since before most of us were born,
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Ty's Take Water's been the story around here for years, and not always in the ways we hoped. Last week it was drought and fire danger. This week the county's declaring disaster over flooding, and we've had to shut down the landfill
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Ty's Take There's something worth noting in how a town this size marks itself. We've got food service workers getting state recognition, three neighbors named Living Treasures, nine kids making National Merit semifinalists, and a man named George Fischer Morse who lived nearly eighty
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Ty's Take The Chamber's Wall of Honor landed again this year, and if you haven't walked past that display lately, you're missing the actual backbone of Lebanon. These aren't celebrity names or state politicians, they're the folks who
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Ty's Take Nancy Carol Coates made it to 84, which in these parts means she saw the valley change from something you could cross on horseback to what it is now, all strip malls and subdivisions creeping out where pecan orchards used to be. The Bulletin's
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On the Water TodayLake level: 659.39 ft (0.6 ft below full pool) Today 76° Scattered Showers And Thunderstorms then Isolated Showers And Thunderstorms · Tonight 59° Isolated Rain Showers then Mostly Cloudy · Monday 80° Mostly SunnySources: USGS gauge 06925500, National Weather Service Ty's Take Blake Hodits knows
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Ty's Take It's a thin news day out of the Sheriff's Office and State Patrol, the kind that reminds you how quickly things can go wrong for people around here. A man facing a failure to register charge, a teenager in Seymour laid up
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Ty's Take Nancy Carol Coates and Thomas Ocie Williams both left this world in recent days, and their names in the Bulletin remind us that the Hatch Valley's real wealth has never been measured in bushels or market prices. These were people who lived here, raised
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Ty's Take Water's running high on the Current after last week's rain, which means the float outfitters are probably grinning ear to ear and the locals who actually live here are probably thinking about their septic systems and basement crawlspaces. September floods in Shannon